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AI Chatbots are lying about the internet! How to stop them 🙅
Are ChatGPT, Bard and others lying, OpenAI CEO says AI is definitely eliminating jobs, and AI's influence on politics
Everyday AI
July 28, 2023
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Are major chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Bard really connected to the internet like the tell us? Or are they lying. It’s all in the details. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: An AI-powered team engagement app, the real reason why Meta is making their AI model public, and AI’s influence on the future of politics. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Major chatbots are jailbroken, OpenAI CEO says jobs are definitely going away because of AI, and Google search scammers are using AI as bait. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Wish ChatGPT could not only summarize long articles but also read them to you? Today we show you how.
🏆 Digital Drops Giveaway: Contest ends Monday! FREE ChatGPT for 6 months AND 1-on-1 training. Sign Up!
🧠 Leveraging AI 101: Wondering the best way to access the internet for your chats to make sure they don’t lie? Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Missed out on yesterday’s newsletter? We talked about creating ChatGPT content that sounds human and converts, Build an app just by telling AI what you want and AWS’ new AI agents. Check it here!
AI Chatbots Are Lying About The Internet:
How to stop them 🙅
Have you ever used a chatbot and it just straight up lies to you?
(What did I do wrong to YOU Bard?!)
Or maybe you’re struggling to even get your chatbot to be connected to the internet.
Today we go over major chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard and more to see which are lying and which ones are even connected to the internet.
Definitely one you won’t want to miss!
Also on the pod today:
• Difference between internet search and link reading 🌐
• Chatbot internet limitations 🚫
• ChatGPT Plugin Pack example 🔌
It’ll be worth your 37 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – HuddleUp is an AI-powered team engagement app that lets you do 1 on 1’s and identify burnout, Shopify Sidekick is Shopify’s new AI assistant, and ImagineQr is an AI QR code generator
Pop Culture – AI just identified a painting as a Renaissance masterpiece. So why are art historians skeptical about it?
Big Tech - Last week Meta announced that Llama 2, their new language model, was going to be made available to the public. So what’s the catch? Here’s why it’s free.
AI and Society – AI has been linked for a while to have a major influence on the future of politics. Here are 6 ways that AI could change politics.
Read This – China has been pretty quiet on the AI front since it unveiled its new rules governing AI. But maybe it’s on purpose?
1. Chatbots Can Be Jailbroken? 😵💫
A recent report by a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon found some big holes in the safety of major chatbots. Chatbots like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude and more were all able to be jailbroken.
2. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says Jobs are Definitely Going Away 😬
Although Sam Altman believes generative AI could benefit many workers, he doesn’t think everyone will be able to reap the benefits. In a recent interview, Sam said he thinks jobs are definitely going away but not to AI itself. Instead people will lose jobs to those who use AI.
3. Google Search Scammers are Using AI As Bait 😡
Google Search scammers have increased with the recent AI boom. A board tech executive was interested in learning about Midjourney so after Googling it, he clicked on the first Google result, which was a scammer ad being run by Google unknowingly. He then accidentally installed malware that stole all his personal information on his laptop.
4. Intel Wants to Build AI into Every Platform They Create 🤖
At Intel’s recent Q2 earnings call, CEO Pat Gelsinger heavily pushed AI to Intel’s investors and said that he wants AI in everything they build.
5. Google is building AI To Teach Robots Tasks 🚮
Google just announced a new AI model called Robotics Transformer 2.
RT-2 is a vision-language-action model trained on information and images on the internet that can be translated into actions for the robot. One example is AI teaching robots to take out the trash.
Simple hours by making ChatGPT read you long article summaries ⚡️
What if you had a little bot who would summarize all your important articles and read them to you?
Sounds like something a rich person would have, right? Like, a little miniyou who just tells you what’s important and reports it to you.
Well, meet your minime. In today’s AI in 5, we show you how to make ChatGPT create mini podcast summaries for you to recap long articles in just the important nuggets.
(You’ll need ChatGPT plus for this, but we’re giving that away to two lucky people here)
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🤷♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:
Wait, AI chatbots can hallucinate?
Yes.
But not the kind where you wake up with a 103 fever and think you’re living on Mars kinda hallucination.
Let’s make it clear though: AI chatbots do lie, especially when it comes to accessing the internet.
Naughty, naughty.
In today’s episode, we took a close (and kinda long) look at how different AI chatbots access the internet, and if they can really read the internet or not.
We put ChatGPT, Google Bard, Claude 2, Bing Chat and Perplexity to the test.
Can they read the internet if we ask them to?
Spoiler: it’s a mixed bag, but ChatGPT is the clear winner.
Even though the aim of a large language model is not to access the internet, that’s one of the best use-cases for the everyday person.
But there’s a problem: most AI chatbots have a cut-off of September 2021. So if you wanna know something that’s happened in the past 2 years, you’re outta luck.
Don’t worry, though, shorties. We got you.
Let’s break it down and show you the best way to still access the internet in your AI chats: 👇
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Alright. You’ve gotta read like 10 articles for that project that’s due like yesterday.
It’ll take hooooooours. Do you read them all and take notes, or just tap in an AI chatbot to summarize them all for you?
Let’s break it down, so you know the exacts of how this works. And so they don’t lie to ya.
1 – Large Language Models aren’t browsers 🛜
Large Language Models are exactly that — models. LLMs aren’t really made to browse the internet and summarize things on command, even though that’s one of the best use-cases. Still, it’s important to understand that LLMs like ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing Chat, Claude 2, Perplexity and others don’t really read whatever link you tell them to.
At least Claude 2 now tells you it can’t read links, whereas it didn’t use to just make stuff up.
Try this:
An easier way to quickly summarize webpages is with GPT-powered Chrome extensions. Some of our favorites are Merlin, Monica and Perplexity. Also, there’s a great free option available called Talkweb that we recently reviewed.
2 – Test first and double check your work ✅
It’s confusing when search giants like Microsoft and Google release chatbots they say are connected to the internet.
Why? Because even though they can technically access information on the internet, by default you can’t really force them to give you the information you want. Most LLMs, when you give them a link, will instead query the keywords in the URL and instead search their big internet-connected brains for those words.
As we saw in today’s breakdown, results will vary.
Try this:
Check out recent AI in 5 for a shorter and succinct overview of the pros and cons of using AI chats to research on the internet.
3 – Go ChatGPT Plus with Plugins 🔌
Simple as that. The only way to consistently and confidently get accurate summaries from a LLM on demand is to use ChatGPT Plus with a web-enabled plugin. As you saw in our head-to-head-to-head-to-head battle, ChatGPT with plugins was the only consistent AI chat that could accurately read articles that you send it.
Try this:
Test one plugin at a time to summarize webpages. Some of our favorites to use are Mixerbox, Universal and Link Reader, among others. See which one works best for your use-cases, and always do a quick fact check.
Now This …
Hopefully this helped to uncover any misunderstanding you had with chatbots and internet access.
Now you can go and get accurate and up to date information out of your next query.
What’s the craziest thing a chatbot has told you? Let us know with a reply and we’ll feature our favorites in an upcoming newsletter!
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